Each day I like you more and more :)

My understanding and interest about scores keeps growing. And I am so excited to get to know more possibilities of it. Hopefully this LOVE of shapes and lines will be useful :)
Video from Improvisation class, where dancers : Greta, Ioana, Oana, Wunmi are embodying my score of simple movements - walking, running, rolling on the floor. I left them free space to explore their own way of doing that.

and my score as well

Math for dancing performance!?

Final point of research and starting point of duet performance.
Question - How can 1 be equal 2?
Answer - Easily, even maths theory can prove that.
Magic of 2 in 1 is never-ending sequence, from shampoo with conditioner in one bottle till soul and body in one human.
And everyone will be treated in the same way - two people is one duet.
This is link to become familiar with scientific basis.
http://www.jimloy.com/algebra/two.htm

score

Choreography session - discovering possibilities of noticing movements. This session was unique, because finally I started to get and define, what is score and how it can work for me.

Playing in studio

Responsibilty

If we just imagine ideal world, where choreographer can accurately deliver his idea to audience.  How big or small responsibility relies on audience to understand idea of performance? Is it active way to see or audience is feed by choreographer?
And as we know that this world can't be ideal, because we do not have instrument to make it perfect. Creation of other understanding of audience is witnessing. It means active form of being present.
Should we stick to title audience or try to change it to witnessing?
And how it can work out?
The last question is more addressed to artists and students of all kinds of art. We are learned to take art in active form trough all senses. Trough all learning process students are trying to reach one of the goals to stay active in seeing, to be witnesses.
However, how it is with others, for whom it is created ( of course, if it is created  for some one :) ), are they ready to stay active and to take responsibility for that?

 Reference
Preston, D. (1998)., Looking at Dances, UK: Verve Publishing

How worth is pain?

"For Pina Bausch pain is the corollary of living, loving and desire." (Horsday, 78)
My question is - How worth is pain for you ?
How worth it is for your personality and for your professional being on the stage, wherever and whatever is your stage of carrier.
And are there any categories for pain?

Observations of Two Quartets (Siobhan Davis)

Two Quartets is work in two parts, which are made in collaboration with fashion designer Jonathan Sounders. Both parts were made to be seen as one work and they are danced in quartets.

In the first quartet stage is bare and white in contrast with black surrounding. And the lightening of stage creates different relationships and textures of contrast.

The same color principle is used in dancers costumes. They are dressed in black and white colors, which can be combine to create visual image of duet. For example, both males costumes creates visual image of one black or white costume and in the same way works costumes of females.

In the all first quartet dancers work very close to each other as they are making continuous line of circle. There is change of speed and levels, from fast to moments of stillness and from high to middle level of movements. The main language of movements shifts from running, tripping, turning to walking and posing.

In contrast to the first quartet, in the second quartet is clearly seen the distance between dancers. Because during the whole part dancers are working separately. And even if on the stage are more then one dancer, they stay asunder. It seems more like two separate solos than a duet.

In the choreography is used changing of levels and dynamics, and repetition of movements in different directions. However, in the second quartet is used more contact with floor and voice of dancer, which is not used in first quartet.

Another difference between quartets is costumes of dancers. They are dressed in different colors, more to black and white is added red.

There is also difference in stage design. It isn't bare, but it is cleaved to four pieces by white walls. Trough all piece they are changing from flashy white to transparent. These changes create new visual images of stage.

This experience of observing gave me chance to realize that one piece of work can be created in two different ways, but in the same time.